Pan Am World Services Inc. Wins Big Los Alamos Contract

COCOA — Pan Am World Services Inc. of Cocoa Beach has won a contract with a potential value of $1 billion to provide services at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Jack Nuckels, who will be operations manager for the Los Alamos job, said Thursday that the contract was one of the largest ever awarded Pan Am World Services. The company will provide engineering, property-management, transportation, custodial and other maintenance and support services.

The agreement initially covers a five-year, $500 million contract period, but it includes a renewal option for five more years.

Nuckels said the Los Alamos job will represent at least 20 percent of Pan Am World Services' contract operations on an annual basis. The company established an office in New Mexico last year to compete for the contract, which had not been put up for bid in a decade.

Pan Am World Services, which reported sales of $380 million in 1984, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pan Am Corp. It employs more than 2,500 people at the Eastern Space and Missile Center at Patrick Air Force Base.